> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 2:03 PM > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:10:46PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > commit 9862b43624 upstream > > > > There has been a race condition identified with initialization of the dell-laptop > > driver due to changes in 4.15. This commit has been shown to resolve the race > > condition. > > > > I'd like to see this brought back to 4.15 stable. It doesn't apply to anything earlier. > > It doesn't apply cleanly to 4.15.y, it has 2 unresolved hunks. Can you > provide a backported version so that it can be applied? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Yes, I'll send to @stable separately shortly.